Self-Portrait

The work is dated to 1780 on the basis of internal documentation and the Hermitage Museum’s records.

It entered the Hermitage collection as part of the museum’s holdings in Saint Petersburg, where it has remained since at least the late nineteenth century. No record of a private commission or preparatory studies has been traced in connection with this painting.

The painting, executed in oil on canvas, was created in France and depicts the artist himself, reflecting his status as a leading genre painter of the period.

Greuze's Self-Portrait from 1780, housed in the Hermitage Museum, exemplifies his prominence in late-eighteenth-century French portraiture. The painting, executed in oil on canvas, was created in France and depicts the artist himself, reflecting his status as a leading genre painter of the period. Its critical reception highlighted technical mastery and emotional nuance, contributing to ongoing scholarship on Greuze's role in bridging Rococo and Neoclassical aesthetics.

The work's classification as a self-portrait and its inclusion in major collections underscore its significance within the artist's oeuvre and broader European art history.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s self‑portrait, executed in oil in 1790, presents the artist in his later years. The canvas is part of the State Hermitage Museum’s holdings, offering a rare glimpse of the painter’s own visage rendered with the compositional restraint typical of his mature period.